Re: Document Feeders

Nicolas.DE-PESLOUAN@generale-des-eaux.net
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:35:20 +0100

Andreas Rick wrote:

> To add still more confusion to the ADF discussion I would like
> to add a small description of the automatic film strip feeder
> for the Nikon Filmscanners:
>
> When you put the film strip into the scanner
> (Strip of up to 6 24*36mm slides/negatives )
> the scanner does a very quick scan of the whole strip
> to find out and store the positions of all images.
> You can then query these positions and ask the Feeder to
> go to any position. There you can do anything you can do
> with a single slide: Preview, Scan, ...

Oliver Rauch wrote:

> For the second way you describe the backend has to make avaliable
> functions like
> - "next media",
> - "previous media" although a normal
> scanner is not able to reget an already scanned and unloaded paper
> - "media number ##" - see above

> This is not a real adf mode. I suggest to add a special source for this
> like "Film feeder" or sth like that.

My 2 cents :

And what about adding *several* sources, one for each detected images in
the scanner ??

Nicolas.

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